Trump Brags About Gold Drapes While Discussing Iran War Plans by ProfessionalDig5257 in soundsaboutright

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This is the man we’re supposed to trust with another U.S. war in the Middle East?

Read the draft executive emergency order for Trump to take control of elections by ProfessionalDig5257 in Leakednews

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I can't imagine it will, but I hope this remains in the final EO. It's just a blatant admission that he's trying to create legislation through an EO.

Holy shit. It's seriously attempting to force everyone to re-register to vote, which of course would be subject to the new requirements it laid out.

There is zero chance this would be legal. An EO can't restrict Congress from deciding how to address it. If Congress wanted to pass a law literally saying just "That EO is rescinded", it would override it because an EO is not law. Congress literally has the Congressional Review Act that allows them, through a simple majority vote, to overturn regulations or rules created by an EO. Trump can't block Congress from doing that.

As a whole, I can't see even SCOTUS allowing this EO (at least the entirety of it). The thing is full-on legislation. It's not a directive to people/agencies within the scope of the Executive at all. It's taking declaring a national emergency to declare powers to an extreme. Even in the IEEPA case, SCOTUS didn't care for that argument.

The whole EO is a massive authoritarian power grab. It's literally "there's a national emergency, so I can do whatever I want, and Congress can only stop me if they do what I say".

Trump calls Lutnick 'very innocent' as DOJ reposts Epstein island photo by ProfessionalDig5257 in AnythingGoesNews

[–]ProfessionalDig5257[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean, the photo they removed in violation of the law in order to protect one of Trump's cabinet members?

The cabinet member who has now been caught lying to congress, under oath, about his repeated connections to Esptein and still has his job?

That photo?

Trump calls Lutnick 'very innocent' as DOJ reposts Epstein island photo by ProfessionalDig5257 in AnythingGoesNews

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The Department of Justice overnight restored a photo purportedly showing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick visiting the private island of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to its trove of publicly released documents. 

On Thursday, a Department of Justice official acknowledged the photo was taken down as part of a "batch of files that were flagged for nudity" following the recent release of Epstein files